Today...

we woke up to this!!!

But,

tomorrow -

this family

leaves all this behind for...

the happiest place on earth....Disneyland!

We're Crazy 4 Cousins!

We love it when our cousins come to visit (and everyone else!)

Cousins always make room...

Cousins keep you from falling into the worlds largest man-made pit (Kennecott Copper Mine)...
I've lived in Utah most of my life and this was my first time there!

The trucks they use are the size of a small house - as you can tell by how huge the tire is!

Round-Up Time

Mr. Sneaky...

Knows the best thing to do with a spray bottle - filled with water. I love the mischevious look!

I love sleeping babies...and that cute bum in the air!

A little Round-up, Wound-up time before bed!

Benson was trying to get into his bouncy chair - so I helped him up...its a little bit to little.

I love my good helper and she loves helping me in the kitchen!

She is just dying to use a knife (yikes), so I taught her to use the carrot peeler instead and she thought it was pretty cool!

What a Weekend!

This last weekend on Saturday I ran in a 6K(3.72 miles) race at Thanksgiving Point. There were 1800 women there - crazy...a little bit claustrophobic, but I actually had a lot of fun doing it. It is the first time I have run a race since my Freshman year of High school - 14 years ago (yikes, I'm old!!) I really only started running in September so I was really pleased when I was able to accomplish my goals of running the whole time and completing the race in less than 45 min.

I was lucky to have some really great supporters - cheering me on.

There was plenty of fun things to do to keep Alayna entertained.

I finished 233 overall and ran 3.72 miles in 40:46 - which is a 10:56 minute mile. As soon as I finished my race we got in the car and headed south for a quick 24 hour visit to see Baby Kamree be blessed.

We also got to see Aunt Kasey leave for her homecoming date.

My cute little family all ready for church.

And Benson got his first real haircut - I guess you could say. After pics to come soon!

September...Long Past Due

I haven't really been in a blogging mood lately, but I did really want to get a few cute pictures up from September. We were able to sneak away to the Brown's cabin for Labor Day weekend and had a great time. Here are Alayna, Benson, and Brayden just waking up.

Here are Alayna, Brayden and Karter getting ready for a treasure hunt - they had a great time gathering clues and loved the prizes they found at the end.

Kadin and Benson

A Brown family tradition: Painting a rock at the cabin.

Alayna's rock probably had about twenty layers of color on it. She is kind of a spazz when she poses for pictures sometimes.

Benson and Kamree will be in the same grade when they start school - hard to believe huh?!

Alayna always sits around Benson so he is "sitting" on her lap and then she grabs him and they roll onto their backs - laughing and crying - it goes both ways depending on how tight she squeezes. I love when they play "happily" together!

9 Months!

I can't even believe Benson is 9 months - where has the last year gone?! I feel like I haven't updated the blog forever, but we were having computer problems...so now that everything is better - I can hopefully put together a few posts from this last month within the next few days.

I love how handsome Benson looks in his new Sunday outfit!

We were lucky to have Grandma and Grandpa Brown come see us last weekend and spoil all of us! We had a great time at the Farmer's Market - where I had the most delicous Belgian Waffles smothered in Belgian Dark Chocolate...and we all had Belgian Frites - the most delicious french fries in the world. (I forgot the camera that day, but next time we go back I will take a picture!)

My cute kids - Benson loves Alayna so much - he watches her and talks to her all day. He loves when she slows down to play with him, but she can be a little rough sometimes - like in this picture...

We are so lucky to have Benson in our family - he is so happy and content. He is a mathematical genious already! He scoots around in circles and affixes himself at the precise angle to his destination then rolls in a straight line wherever he wants to go. It is so cute to watch. He can get anywhere he wants using this method and pretty fast too.

Benson loves to play - especially with Alayna , Mom, and Dad. He babbles all day - and says Mama, Dada, and Nana (Alayna) all the time. He is so spoiled. We love him so much and are so glad that he is part of our family.

Today we found out at the Doctor that Benson weighs 20 lbs and is 28 inches long - both are about 50th percentile - where he has consistently been - to me he just seems so big, but he is very average.

Mom's big helper!

Around here...

We have been playing a ton of this lately... it is our new favorite game because Benson can now play all by himself!